Cal screamed, "BRONN!"
Noah's head snapped up just in time to see Bronn's body drop like a sack of stones, his neck still steaming. Where his head should have been was just empty space.
Blood sprayed across the nearest wall, the red bright and fresh against the pale blue glow of the mana stones.
A moment of stunned silence followed, as everyone stared in disbelief at the headless corpse slumped by the stone wall.
"Shit! What was that!?" Leo barked, his voice hoarse.
Then they heard it.
Skrrrrrshhh…
A chittering sound, high and unnatural, echoed through the chamber. Something skittered above, too fast for the eye to follow. Then another.
Arlo's bow was already in his hand. "Up! Up! It's in the webs."
Noah's heart began to thud in his chest. No one had even seen the attack coming!
He raised his gaze towards the thick canopy of spiderwebs clinging to the high ceiling.
There it was.
